How it was №1 06.02.2001 (2001)

Video chronicle: Americans in Moscow: a Soviet video for foreign tourists advertising a new route.

Travel along the city roads.

The Intourist tour bus.

The host of the program describes the events of 1959. Lee Harvey Oswald, who arrived in the USSR on a tourist visa, stayed at the Moscow Metropol Hotel.

The American did not leave his room and soon asked to be granted Soviet citizenship.

Lev Setyaev, commissioned by the editors, interviewed a young foreigner who declared with his first sentence that he was a Marxist.

Video archive: John Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline at the airport in Dallas (Texas).

Shooting at the presidential motorcade.

Weeping Americans.

The book warehouse building from which three shots were allegedly fired, one of which was fatal.

Police officers demonstrate an automatic rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald, accompanied by police officers, walks past representatives of the press.

The assassination of Oswald by Jack Ruby.

Lev Setyaev talks about Oswald's desire to stay in the USSR; the young man was not interested in anything else.

Later, the correspondent regretted very much that he had demagnetized the tape recording of this interview.

Video chronicle: Anastas Mikoyan.

Lubyanka Square.

The facade of the KGB building.

The facade of the building where the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was located.

By the decision of the party, Oswald was allowed to stay in the USSR and Minsk was designated as his place of residence.

Lev Setyaev, who decided to help the young foreigner who did not know Russian, left his address in Oswald's notebook, which he later regretted many times, since the American intelligence services subsequently dubbed him a KGB agent.

Video chronicle: a fragment of the newsreel "Across the Soviet Union".

Stepana Katushenok returns to her native village in Belarus from Argentina.

Stepan with his mother and friends.

Streets of Minsk.

Workshops of the Belarusian Radio Plant.

It was at the Belarusian Radio Plant that Oswald worked as a traffic controller.

There he met Marina Prusakova, who became his wife.

Larisa Sevast'yanova talks about her communication with Oswald, shares her impressions of the young man.

The American explained why he came to the USSR. Interview with Stanislav Shushkevich, who became the American's first teacher.

He recalls his meeting with Oswald.

Interview with Eduard Nordman.

He says that Oswald was of no interest to the secret services, but he was considered a person with some mental deviations from the social norm of behavior.

Larisa Sevast'yanova, who became a witness at the newlyweds' wedding, talks about Marina and Oswald's leisure time.

Interview with Konstantin Bondarin.

She recalls how Marina and Oswald met.

Larisa Sevast'yanova refutes accusations against Marina about her cooperation with the KGB secret services.

Interview with Valentina Prusakova, who maintains contacts with Marina, who left the USSR. Talks about the life of Marina and Oswald in the USA, referring to their personal correspondence.

Upon returning to his homeland, Oswald's relations with the FBI became complicated.

He changed several jobs and decided to return to the USSR again.

After submitting his documents, he was refused.

Alexander Feklistov talks about a certain thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR, which occurred in the mid-50s.

Interview with Oleg Nechiporenko.

The vice-consul recalls how Lee Harvey Oswald approached the USSR embassy in Mexico with a request to issue him and his wife a visa, since, according to him, he was constantly being monitored by the FBI. The American had a weapon with him and was in a state of extreme nervous tension.

Lev Setyaev recalls how he first heard on the radio about the Kennedy assassination and the name of the killer.

Video chronicle: Anastas Mikoyan on the plane.

Publications in the Soviet press in connection with the Kennedy assassination.

The funeral ceremony for the US President.

Jacqueline with her children at Kennedy's coffin.

Anastas Mikoyan at the funeral.

Alexander Feklisov recalls his talks with his American colleagues, who expressed confidence that Oswald was not the killer.

A terrorist group of Texas racists was suspected.

In particular, a version was put forward about the involvement of Cuban emigrants and the participation of several killers who fired simultaneously.

Alexander Feklisov and Lev Setyaev categorically deny the involvement of the Soviet special services in the assassination of John Kennedy.